Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac Escalade Esv, Cadillac Escalade Ext, Chevrolet Avalanche, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Chevrolet Silverado 2500, model years 2007 to 2009. Filed by General Motors, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 5 February 2021. 557,023 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2009 Cadillac Escalade, Escalade ESV, Escalade EXT, Chevrolet Avalanche, Silverado 1500, Silverado 2500, Silverado 3500, Suburban, Tahoe, GMC Sierra 1500, Sierra 2500, Sierra 3500, Yukon, and Yukon XL vehicles originally sold, or ever registered, in the states of Arizona, …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
The maker's own number for this recall: N212328780. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V052 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 21V052 cover?
- Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac Escalade Esv, Cadillac Escalade Ext, Chevrolet Avalanche, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Chevrolet Silverado 2500, Chevrolet Silverado 3500, Chevrolet Suburban, model years 2007-2009.
- What is wrong with them?
- General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2009 Cadillac Escalade, Escalade ESV, Escalade EXT, Chevrolet Avalanche, Silverado 1500, Silverado 2500, Silverado 3500, Suburban, Tahoe, GMC Sierra 1500, Sierra 2500, Sierra 3500, Yukon, and Yukon XL vehicles originally sold, or ever registered, in the...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. GM will notify owners, and dealers will replace the front passenger air bag inflator with an alternate one, free of charge. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed on February 23, 2021. Second notification letters will be mailed once the remedy is available.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall N212328780, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V052 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | General Motors, LLC |
| System at fault | Air Bags:Frontal:Passenger Side:Inflator Module |
| Reported to NHTSA | 5 February 2021 |
| Model years | 2007-2009 |
| Vehicles named | CADILLAC ESCALADE, CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV, CADILLAC ESCALADE EXT, CHEVROLET AVALANCHE, CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500, CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500, CHEVROLET SILVERADO 3500, CHEVROLET SUBURBAN, CHEVROLET TAHOE, GMC SIERRA 1500, GMC SIERRA 2500, GMC SIERRA 3500, GMC YUKON, GMC YUKON XL |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.
The remedy
GM will notify owners, and dealers will replace the front passenger air bag inflator with an alternate one, free of charge. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed on February 23, 2021. Second notification letters will be mailed once the remedy is available. Owner notification letters were mailed on September 20, 2021. Owners may contact Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020, Cadillac customer service at 1-800-458-8006, and GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782. GM's number for this recall is N212328780.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 846 notices in the record whose component field names air bags. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Cadillac Escalade recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Cadillac Escalade Esv recalls: 35 US campaigns
- Cadillac Escalade Ext recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Avalanche recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Silverado 1500 recalls: 52 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Silverado 2500 recalls: 37 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Silverado 3500 recalls: 37 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Suburban recalls: 25 US campaigns
- Chevrolet Tahoe recalls: 32 US campaigns
- GMC Sierra 1500 recalls: 50 US campaigns
- GMC Sierra 2500 recalls: 35 US campaigns
- GMC Sierra 3500 recalls: 36 US campaigns
- GMC Yukon recalls: 46 US campaigns
- GMC Yukon XL recalls: 34 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 21V052, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21v052/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 21V052 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
959f3dc2 - Consequence
0236533f - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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